You should read one of the following, depending on your background and interests,
Hoffman et al is recommended for students in Scientific Computation:
Ann Oakley:
Experiments in Knowing:
Gender and Method in the Social Sciences.
New York: The New Press, 2000.
J. Hoffman, C. Johnson, A. Logg: Dreams of Calculus
Perspectives on Mathematics Education
Springer 2004, XIII, 158 p., Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-21976-7
1: Thomas Kuhn, with the Paradigm
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/kuhn.htm
2: Paul Feyerabend, the Anarchist
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/feyerabe.htm
3: Lyotard: The Post Modern Condition.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/lyotard.htm
Lyotard was the first to identify the 'third phase' of the University
system, where the concept of education is replaced by marketable
skills, 'the commodificaton of knowledge'.
4: Rene Thom: Modern Mathematics: An educational and Philosophical Error? in Tymoczko: New directions in the Philosophy of Mathematics, Birkhauser 1986.
5: Ann Oakley (2000) Experiments in Knowing: Gender and Method in the Social Sciences. New York: The New Press. pp 23-43.
6: Aristotle: Nichmachean Ethics Book VI
Rhetoric and Ethos
7: Language and ideas, from Ibn Khaldun,
Muqaddimah
VI:55(1380)
Khalil on Khaldun
The phrasing of a paper can have profound effect on its ability to be remembered. Several examples of inspirations to Nobel prize papers seem to have been unawarded mainly because of the author's reluctance to make bold rhetorical claims - which involves a risk if the claim is not eventually accepted by the community and may also make it more difficult to publish. A paper must create a space in the orld of ideas of the discipline, and then fill it, to be remembered.
9: M. Nussbaum: Cultivating Humanity, pp 1-15.
The
humanities in liberal arts colleges see themselves as instrumental in
forming good citizens of modern society.
10: Josef Ben-David: Scientific Growth, 1991, University of California Press. Ch 23: The Ethos of Science (1980). Ben-David spent his research career studying systems of learning and research. He analyzes the components of scientists ambitions relative to society, maybe without reaching a definite conclusion.
11: E.M. Forster: The Machine Stops Oxford and Cambridge Review, Nov 1909
Voted one of the best short stories up to 1965
Anticipates the existentialist and environmentalist streaks in philosophy of Technology (Heidegger, Naess, Borgmann).
Microsociology of Science
12: Latour: Science in Action. Ch 1 :
Here we get a view
of what an anthropologist can find in a high-tech molecular biology
lab. Classical and controvesial.
13: A. Warwick: Masters of Theory, 2003 University of
Chicago Press. pp 1-15.
This is a study of how the Cambridge
mathematical physics developed from an environment of a seminar for
priests and into a center of Scientific learning. Confirms Feyerabend
and Kuhn in its analysis of the acceptance, without truly convincing
evidence, of the theories of relativity in Cambridge. Also an account
of how practice-based work can lead to mathematical results of lasting
value, an interesting case being Poynting's trip from the horrors of
the Tripos to the discovery of his method to account for the energy in
an electromagnetic field, Poynting's vector, which is now one of many
tools used to develop sustainable energy systems, e.g., by Leijon's
group in Uppsala.
14: Gross, Levitt: Higher superstition p 57-62.
After the
end of the cold war, scientists became more and more entrenched by
researchers in the humanities of American Universities, who did not
seem to give them the central place in research they had earned. This
extract gives their view of Bruno Latour, currently one of the most
influential, quick-witted and heretic philosophers/anthropologists of
science and technology. The book, Higher Superstition, can be seen as
the call to arms in the 'science wars' of the 1990:s.
15: Review of Readings
by Cramer
16: Bill Readings: The University in Ruins. 1996. Introduction.
17: Wikipedia: (J. Hoffman), d'Alembert's paradox
20:Dourish: Implications for Design
21: AMC Research Code (extract, revised version).
University Laws and Statutes(Swedish)
Authorship Guidelines
Authorship Guidelines, Background
Campbell Collaboration
Cochrane Collaboration
Watson, Crick: Nature vol 171, April 25, 1953
Linus Pauling and the race for DNA,